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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
I've been sanctioned!
I just tried to buy something with PayPal and got the following message:

Error 3028. You have accessed your account from a sanctioned country. In accordance with international sanctions regulations, you are not authorised to access the PayPal system. For more information about your PayPal account status, contact complianceverifications@paypal.com.

Friends say American credit cards have had this problem for some time. Are British ones following suit?  I'm not sure how any country was brought to its knees by preventing people shopping at Amazon, but the ways of international finance are apparently mysterious.Mc Dowall

 

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  • by neda                                                                                                                                  

  • By Mr. Behy                    

  • by fatema   

                                                 WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2007   neda   Taliban in Iran


These pictures have been taken three days ago, in Haft e Tir sq Tehran.
A girl, who was first kicked because of her insufficient hejab or being so called "bad-hejab", and then colored with her own blood on face.


 

Pretty shocking ha.. not for me though.
It doesn’t even make me deeply sad, or angry. What that pisses me off is the people, the majority of people who most of them never even wore hejab before the revolution and now say: "well, some girls had really crossed the line, you know.. with those small head scarves and short pants showing their ankles.."

This freaks me out, and to be most definite, makes me wish to disappear for ever. you are alive with hope, it takes any hopes away.
neda

                                                                          

 Friday, March 16, 2007      Mahboobeh and Shadi 
 
Just five days remained to Norooz, Iranian new year.. and still Mahboobeh and Shadi are in Evin. You wanted 200 million tomans (about $ 200.000) bail to free them temporarily.this is while Shahram Jazayeri, who's suppose to be in prison for defalcation of more than two bilion tomans is now in Dobai, without even finishing his sentence.seeking your nuclear ambitions, you often pose it as Iranian's absolute right or what fucking ever, while we don't even live as human beings in our country. right now two women are in your prison just because of seeking their rights. they are in your prison and their families missing them in the new year when every body should be with their family and love ones. teachers are beaten and arrested for protesting to bias and low salary. they also will celebrate Norooz in you precious Evin because of their indubitable rights.

I'll print their picture tomorrow and put it on my desk, making sure that I will see them and think about them every day. I'm sure so many will do the same. I'll think about you too, and all my indubitable rights, not those you want to use for your sick ambitions, but the ones I know as my rights and they are as simple as the right to choose what I wear, right to divorce, to be a complete human being in the eyes of law and not half, to watch a football match in Azadi stadium to have the custody of my child if I got divorced...
You seem to have no idea yet, but you could never strengthen Iranian women's right activities better.

By the way, do you remember when the revolution took place some twenty eight years ago? doesn't it sound too familiar?  neda

Strikes against the nuclear sites of Tehran are ready in the desk drawers of the Pentagon

by neda
Good morning, Mr. Ahmadinejad .. the man who promised his people to take oil incomes to their homes...you know, since yesterday when I saw you on news, hugging venezuela’s huge president (man you’re small!)..I'm thinking, are you really that sucker to think exchanging hugs and gifts with every body who is not a big fan of Bush, will save Iran? Do you think Hogue Chavez will leave his country to stand beside us when we finally achive “our obvious right”?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                  Neshane Gozari

                


                                                                    

By Neda                                         emotionally attached as Iranian mothers

I don’t think in any other nation mothers are as emotionally attached as Iranian mothers to their children.
I’m not trying to admire it, in fact it’s the number one problem in Iranian marriages. There’s a joke they say about Iranian men, they say Iranian men usually have a wife and a mistress, and they love their mothers

    

                                                  Ahmadinejad’s on fire  By Neda  

Students of Amir Kabir university (Tehran) when Ahmadinejad was speaking for them cried “death to dictator” and “Liar get out of the university”. Ahmadinejad’s bodyguards beat students.

And yes, that is Ahmadinejad’s picture on fire.

 

 January 03, 2007       a card to Play     by Mr Behi
Finally a card to Play.
Compare Iran with some years back and you notice that life is much more digital than before. Many of the services are available now via digital phones and over the internet. City is full of adds for ADSLs and electronic payment is becoming a regular thing. The only thing that gives a big crash to all of that is the fact that international banks do not operate here (they do not let them so or they themselves do not like to do so? I have no clue). That means by living in Iran, you are excluded from the convenience of having a simple international credit card! Such a pain when you travel especially when you want to check in your hotel, check one scene:

Receptionist: Sir, What would be your preferred way of payment?
Behi: Cash!
Receptionist: Any credit card for convenience?
Behi: No, sorry
Receptionist: Debit Card?
Behi: Neither!
Receptionist: [Strange look at Behi with another look at the business card Behi already provided]
Behi: You know credit cards are not issued where I am from....blah blah blah
Receptionist: Counting the money.(In one occasion, she made a photocopy of all the notes!)

Once when I was purchasing something in London with a 50 BP note, the cashier showed it to six of his colleagues to make sure it was not fake. Come one people know your bills!

Add to this the fact that Amazon does not send anything to Iran. You can not subscribe to iTune music store and tones of other things.

The good thing is that by getting out of Iran with my international contract, I will get a credit card to use but I still doubt about ability of buying books from amazon and other places. I heard that Libyan customs and censorship departments you know, feel free to look at the parcels and sometimes when they enjoy it, they may think that they will enjoy it more than you! 

December 13, 2006

                                               Tehran Holocaust Conference    by Mr Behi

There is a term in business when you want to sell an idea called :"WIIFM" or "What is in it for me?" and people try to judge business situation based on the logical answer they give or receive. Seems that when you live in Iran, you should ask "WTHIHTDWM" or "What the hell it has to do with me?" when you hear about political moves. I have been trying to answer this since I heard the news about the Holocaust conference in Tehran but still no luck!. It is very normal in Iran to see things that you do not understand and approve mainly because the politics here is mainly to impress people of other nations of the middle-east even if it kills Iranian reputation. When I was in Libya, I met many people from different countries of the Arab world and they were all so happy about this much opposition Iran puts against Israel exactly the opposite to many people in Iran who ask WTHIHTDWM?

In the streets of Tehran, I bet not many are even aware of the conference, the city is so covered by election posters for the upcoming city and expediency council elections next Friday and many people are basically more interested in the Asian games than anything else.

For us as humans, there is always a great regret of any tragic event in any human society, that is the lesson we should learn from history and if Iranian government wants to show sympathy with Palestinians, it should not let such historical lessons to be jeopardized.

I am sorry that the Iranian Holocaust is very much forgotten. By the end of WWII when the allied troops invaded Iran and used it as the bridge of victory to help Russian, hundreds of thousands of Iranians died from hunger, historic records are showing that the invading troops were intentionally buying and dumping tons of food to keep it like that. Any need for a conference on this Mr. President?

January 10, 2007

                                                       Tehran, The big gas chamber   by Mr Behi

While Ahmadinejad is making this much noise that Nazi gas chambers did not exist, Tehran itself is becoming more like one, making life so difficult for its residents. As one of the environmental activists said recently, "Living in Tehran is like a group suicide". Thousands upon thousands of old cars using a hell lot of fuel (that is cheaper than a cup of tea in a liter) make the air in Tehran so dense to breath. North of Tehran is better of course for happy and rich guys who can live beside the hills with fresh air. The news says 3600 people died in the last fall as a result of long term effects of air pollution. It is like loosing people in battles! I lived all my life within the downtown so I am pretty much used to it but should I make plans for after my 70s? yahoo...lets spend all the money then....

  Fatema an iranian girl is writing about anything!!

Friday, October 28, 2005 by Fatema working outside


Its not been a long time since iranian women started working outside their homes and have serious jobs. yet in this moment only 20% of us have jobs, others are house-wives or just live with their parents without being able to handle themselves financilay. fortunately this number of working women is growing as we have lots of female univiersity students (more than 50% of all students) i hope that in future things will get into a good balance and all women will work equally with men, 50-50 .
But anyhow, when you wish a good future for yourself and your sisters, it means you have to fight for it, and try hard to change this selfish male theory that says "all high things belong to men and low ones remain women". this wrong opinion exists in most iranian men's brains! however they will finally have to leave it...

Iranian culture is in transition from traditional toward modern. in traditional families, girl was trained to become a housewife and just do household chores, in other hand, boy was supposed to learn a skill, get a job and manage his future family. in iran today, things are different, some girls learn skills too, go to work and make money, but men haven't adjusted themselves with new situation yet. its so hard for them to see a girl doing the same job as they do, as well (or even better) than them. sometimes they tell some type of jokes, or words, obviously with the purpose of hurting their female colleagues and making the environment difficult and unfriendly for women.
And they find the easiest way for offending us, by reminding the typical image of traditional women we might be!! jokes such as this one" whats the use of your effort in learning technical knowledge? you think you need it when washing baby diapers? " and burst of laugh after that can be even more annoying.
But in fact, in opposite of what they think, its men themselves who should feel ashamed when remembering iranian tradiational women. our ancestors didn't let women learn anything other than house chores, and then claimed that women were good only for house chores!,,, its silly.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005   Fatema

Ramadan, Ramadan, Happy Ramadan!
hehe,
happy?
how is it possible to be happy with Ramadan?

for me Ramadan means staying hungry for hours and hours, have no energy to work, get headache, and wait impatiently for sunset! it makes no difference if you believe in "fasting" or not, you must be hungry and thirsty because GOD wants so!! this is what living in ISLAMIC REPUBLIC means, this is what stupidity means!

don't need to remind me the old funny story about how Ramadan lets us taste the hunger that hurts poor people!, its just deceiving ourselves! if one of those firm fasting ladies or gentlemen agree to spend even 5% of his/her monthly salary for poor hungry people, then I will believe they really care for them! but just staying hungry and forcing others fast? has nothing to do with poor people! it is silly!

in the company i work, restaurant serves no food during the Ramadan, and if you decide to bring your lunch from home there is no place for eating it. this is how they make you hate Islam and all its nasty rules which are supposed to bring happyness and luckyness for human! by Fatema

 

                                            The Italian way to Ramadan. Machiavellian

hi Fatema, i'm Eva from Italy, I hope you remember.
can't you just buy something to eat after the sunset and bring it with you (well hidden)at work to eat it the day after at work in the batroom for example?

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